The Railway (30 page)

Authors: Hamid Ismailov

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About the Author and Translator

Hamid Ismailov
is an Uzbek journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 for the United Kingdom, where he now works for the BBC World Service. His works are still banned in Uzbekistan. His writing has been published in Uzbek, Russian, French, German, Turkish, English, and other languages. He is the author of many novels, including
Sobranie Utonchyonnyh
,
Le Vagabond Flamboyant
,
Two Lost to Life
,
The Railway
,
Hostage to Celestial Turks
,
Googling for Soul
,
The Underground
,
A Poet and Bin-Laden
, and
The Dead Lake
; poetry collections including
Sad
(Garden) and
Pustynya
(Desert); and books of visual poetry including
Post Faustum
and
Kniga Otsutstvi
. He has translated Russian and Western classics into Uzbek, and Uzbek and Persian classics into Russian and several Western languages.

Robert Chandler
graduated with a BA in Russian and English Literature from Leeds University. His translations from Russian include Vasily Grossman's
Life and Fate
and
Everything Flows
, Leskov's
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
and Aleksander Pushkin's
The Captain's Daughter
. His co-translations of Andrey Platonov have won prizes both in the UK and in the USA. His translation of Hamid Ismailov's
The Railway
won the AATSEEL prize for 2007 and received a special commendation from the judges of the 2007 Rossica Translation Prize. He is the editor of
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
and the author of Alexander Pushkin (in the Hesperus âBrief Lives' series). He has also translated selections of the poetry of Sappho and of Apollinaire.